Venerandum filia reginae
A small shuffle under the blanket marked that she was finally awake. Though after a few minutes of agonizingly tossing and turning and trying to get back to sleep, she surrendered, and opened a single lazy, and unfocused eye; that was immediately assaulted by warm, and unwanted sunlight. Grumbling and huffing, the mare lifted a well hooficured hoof to her tired eyes to block out the sun. After a minute or so of trying to find an excuse to stay in bed, she started to climb out of her comically large bed.
Letting out a yawn that could rival the roar of a lion in power, and starting a ritualistic line of stretches, she finally decided that she was awake.
After blinking a few times to get the sleep out of her eyes, and to adjust to the lighting, she hopped out of bed, and slowly made her way towards her dresser. It was made out of marble carved into the wall; which was shined and cleaned to perfection. The doors of the dresser were made out of the finest birch wood with twin swirling patterns taking on the colours of pink and gold on both doors that all in all made for a wondrous sight to behold. She opened the great doors, and removed a surprisingly large set of golden horse shoes, a light white-lemon colored aura surrounded her horn as it picked up and magically placed them on an end table next to her bed. Next, she trotted towards the bathroom, and opened the beautifuly large doors, that were also made out of clean birch wood. Stepping into the bathroom, and making her way over to the sink, the sleepy Celestia reached out to turn on the cold tap, but instead; ended up lightly punching the porcelain stand.
Blinking a few times and shaking her head, she looked up to see the bowl a few ft. above her head. Though slightly surprised at this, Celestia knew how she had a tendency to redecorate her room in her sleep due to the nature of her dreams. The princess tried to lower the sink only to find that she could not form enough power in her horn to do so. Huffing, and ruffling her wings, she tried again. But was only met with the same results.
Giving the sink a glare, Celestia trotted out of the bathroom and towards her serving bell by her room’s door. Intending to call a maid to find her sister who had clearly put an enchantment on the sink. The princess of the day pulled the little piece of string and moodily waited there contemplating how to repay her sister for disturbing her precious morning beauty regime. A wicked smile spread across her mouth as she remembered how much Luna liked that trophy she won while apple bobbing during Nightmare Night a few months ago.
While the princess waited, she thought that she might as well get the rest of her regalia ready, and magically picked up her tiara. As Celestia was lowering the crown towards her, she noticed something was odd about it. While looking it over trying to figure out the problem, a knock at her door announced the maid had arrived to assist her. “Come in.” Celestia called, and the door opened slowly and revealed a Khaki coloured mare in a maids outfit, but with a naughty strand of blue mane sticking out the side of the mare’s hat. She could not have been older than twenty one, and there was a glint of fear in her eyes that could only mean she was a new made. The young mare looked around the room for a few seconds with a confused look on her face before she called out; “Princess Celestia?”
Furrowing a brow, the princess who had been peeking her head out from behind her bed walked out into the centre of the room with a moody pout plastered on her face. 'I swear, if Luna has bribed my servants to pretend I am invisible…' Her thoughts were ended when the young maid noticed Celestia, and her jaw fell to the floor. Stuttering, the mare rushed out of the room shouting “Guards! Guards! There’s an intruder in the princesses chamber!”
Caught completely off guard by this behaviour, the princess just stood there with a look of shock on her face before trotting over to the door, just as several guards rounded the corner with either horn’s aglow with what was clearly offensive spells, or with blades drawn. The guard at the head of the group noticed her first. And with a loud growl, made to charge the princess and instantly shot a spell at her. Celestia dodged the incoming fire just in time, and scrambled to cover at the far side of her bed, only to suddenly notice how much her bed towered over her. 'I must have had one strange strange dream'. she thought to herself just as the guard who had shot a spell at her rounded to the side of the bed Celestia was hiding behind. She retaliated by shooting a spell meant to throw the guard against the wall. What this powerfully charged spell actually did was push him back a couple of inches. He instantly recovered from his "ordeal", and the last thing the princess of the sun saw before her world went black, was a teal bolt of light shot right towards her.
Celestia opened her eyes slightly only to see nothing but dull grey, and blackness. Figuring that she must be under her blanket, she tried to lift it off her, only to adorably smack the air instead. Wondering if she was having a weird set of repeat dreams, she went to whack her foreleg hoping it would wake her up. It did not.
Opening her eyes, the confused princess of the day noticed she was moving. No. Being dragged down a dark cobble hallway, and feeling the harsh grip of hooves on her shoulders as her assailants dragged her to an unknown location. What felt odd though, were the size of the hooves on her. Much like her sisters, if not larger. Trying to twist her head around to look at the pony - or ponies moving her only got another one of her assailant’s attention.
Hearing a grunt, and in a hard gravely voice “You, little madam, are going to be in big trouble. How did you even get in the princesses room? And what did you do to her?” This only confused Celestia. She was about to respond, but only to be interrupted by the sound of a door opening, and being unceremoniously thrown to the floor in a large and dark room. The floor was mahogany, and the walls were carved out of solid rock, with the occasional drape over them, depicting star systems, or the moon. Feeling rage building inside of her, Celestia tried to charge her horn up, only to be hit with a huge bout of nausea. Looking up at her horn, she saw a small thimble shaped device fitted on her confusingly small horn. Realizing that a magic blocking device had been placed on her, and knowing she could not use magic, Celestia turned to charge her attackers, but with a sudden stop as she noticed they were huge, but wearing the armour of the solar guards.
'How in the world did they break into Canterlot being that big' Celestia thought as she looked around the room for any kind of escape route. A large shadow appeared behind Celestia. Turning slowly to look up at this huge beast, she saw it had dark blue horse shoes, and a midnight blue coloured coat. Slowly turning her gaze upwards. Celestia let out a sound that sounded like a confused puppy as she saw her sister staring down at her with an angry scowl. Regaining control of her brain, Celestia decided to ask the only thing that came to mind; “Why are you so big, Lu?” This brought a very confused look to her sister’s face. “Why does thou call us by that name, intruder?” Luna picked up her big sister with her magic, and floated Celestia just inches in front of her face “Speak now, or we shall throw thou in the dungeons!” The now even more confused Celestia let out a small squeak. Not being used to her little sister speaking to her like this, left her almost brain dead. Luna dropped Celestia on the floor after waiting for a reply, and was about to turn away when she noticed Celestia’s cutie mark
“Why doth thou hath our sister’s cutie mark?” Luna was becoming visibly angry “SPEAK!” she bellowed in the royal Canterlot voice. Celestia feeling very much like a filly, finally getting some semblance of intelligence back, and spoke up “What do you mean, Lu? And why are you so big? Do you not recognise me? And why have I been assaulted and dragged out of mine own room by my own guards?” The elder princess tried to put on her best, scowl while Luna just stared at her. “C-Celestia?” was all she muttered.
A/N This is my first released fan fiction and it is mostly a test but if I like the way it turns out and if you sexy readers like it I will continue writing it, my Pre-reader and editor Coffee_For_The_Horse who also drew the cover picture.
The two sisters stared at each other for what felt like hours.Even though it was in fact only six seconds.
“Celestia? What happened? Why are you so small? You look like a filly!” The solar princess gave a confused look in response, and furrowed her brow.
“I know you are fond of pranks, Lu. but bribing my guards to knock me out? This has gone too far, sister! I demand you undo your spell; this instant!” Celestia growled adorably and using the cutest angry face ever.
Luna tried to suppress a smile while looking at her 'elder' sibling. “I am not the culprit of this ‘prank’ you speak of. Furthermore, your guards have not been bribed, and I am just as confused about why you are so small as you are, my dear sister.” Luna waved her hoof in the air to dismissed the guards.
When Luna was certain they were alone, she turned to her “elder” sibling. “So. What did you do this time, huh? Please don’t tell me you did not add poison joke to your cake again! Remember what happened last time? Your mane turned green for two days!” Luna grinned devilishly as princess Celestia blushed.
“No! I have not, Luna! Are you telling me that you are not responsible for this?” the little princess was trying to look as menacing as possible with her wings raised and the hardest glare she could muster, though she only managed to make herself look even more adorable. When Luna’s smile grew even wider Celestia gave up, and plopped down back on the floor.
“Then what has happened? Why am I a filly again? I look completely ridiculous! And not only that but I feel sl…eepy” Celestia let out a tiny yawn that sounded more like a puppy whining.
“I will rest, Luna. And then we shall figure out what has happened. Until then; NOPONY must know of this. Are we clear?” Luna nodded still wearing her large grin.
“Ok, then” The solar princess muttered, as she jumped onto Luna’s bed and curled up into the pillow “I will sleep here, so no pony can see me” She let out yet another yawn before closing her eyes and falling asleep with a pout on her face.
A few minuets later, princess Luna left her bedroom with a mixture of mirth and confusion on her face. ‘Why has our sister suddenly been bestowed youth...’ She was jerked out of her thoughts by the guards that had escorted Celestia to her.
“Your majesty. Was that trully the princess?” A light grey guards pony wearing the solar guards armour asked. Though by the look on his face, he appeared to be on the verge of panic,
“Calm thyself, soldier. You had no way of knowing that was your princess. Now be gone, and speak to nopony of this. Understood?”.
The guard nodded, and scampered off to get back to his post. Princess Luna stood thinking for a moment about her next move. ‘We must find out what has reverted Tia back to filly hood... And soon…. Maybe her student…ummm… Sparkles-something can help us! After all, she knows more about modern magic’s than I’
She started off towards her sisters room hoping to find a way to end a message to her students pet dragon the way Celestia did. On the way, she contemplated to political side effects if this could not be reversed ‘How will we keep the Kingdom together? I have had few enough supporters as it is. And those damn nobles can be so hard to deal with these days'.
As she reached her sisters chambers, the princess checked for any traces of magic’s before entering. She found none. Entering the room, she looked around, noticing much of the features for the first time, since she has barely ever entered this room in the castle. Looking around, she saw that all of the furnishings were made out of birch or marble inlaid with what appeared to be solid gold! Or a wide variety of gems. ‘My, my. Tia certainly has expensive tastes. There must be thousands of bits worth of gems in her furniture! And this marble must have been made with Pegasus magic’s built in. We will have to invest in some new furniture if we want to top this!’
As she looked around the room, Luna noticed various runes of the griffon style carved on the side of her sisters bed. ‘What’s this, then?’ As she ran her hoof along the carvings, she recognised them, but for the life of her could not remember where she had seen them before. Or what they meant.
'Mayhaps they are just for decorations?' The younger of the royal siblings put a hoof to her chin in thought.
'We shall have to ask our sister later. But for now, we must contact Miss Sparkles!'.
While Princess Luna was wandering the halls of canterlot castle, her distressed "elder" sibling
was trying her best to appear regal in Luna's barely worn regalia in her room.
"Confound this curse!" Mini Celestia whined, "Guard! I require assistance!" A few seconds and muffled words later, one of Luna's guards entered the lunar princesses chambers looking rather nervous.
"Y-yes, your majesty?" The night blue guard with the menacing looking lunar armour waddled uncertainly up to the little princess with a timid look on his face. "You asked for assistance?".
Princess Celestia tried to put on her best scowl but only ended up looking cute. "Yes I require you to"..she mumbled something to quiet to hear while looking to the ground sheepishly.
The guard gulped, wearily still unsure of the day princesses personality. "W-what was that, your majesty? You require me to..?".
"C-could you get those for me?" She pointed upwards to the top of the alicorn sized dresser that contained all of Luna's regalia and precious items. "I cant reach!" She yelled quickly then continued looking to the floor with an embarresed expression plastered on her face.
"A-at your command, your highness!". Quickly reaching up and gently picking up and lowering his princesses crown, and neckless to the filly.
"Do you require anything else, your highness?" The guard asked feeling a little more confident.
"No, no. I am fine now...thank you!" The little princess said excitedly, while putting on her sisters crown and necklace. She looked quite ridiculous, with the obviously over sized jewelry, while having a huge silly grin pasted on her face.
Princess Luna was pacing up and down the throne room. She had sent a messege to her sisters student about ten minutes ago, and had still heard nothing. She started overthinking the situation. 'What if Tia never turns back! What if we have to govern the country on our own! We-' She was taken out of her internal panic when one of her guards rushed up to her with a scared look on his face.
"Your highness, we require your help!" The guard wheezed.
"Calm thou tits, soldier! Inform us clearly of the situation." Luna raised her brow in confusion
"S-sorry your highness. It's Princess Celestia. S-she made us play hide and seek with her, and we cant find her!"
Luna's eyes narrowed, "You...lost her?!"
The guard hesitantly nodded.
Suddenly the princess of the night took off at full speed towards her chambers, no longer caring about the reply from twilight Sparkle. As Luna raced off the guard stood there dumbstruct.
'Giggle. Violet eyes peered out from inside a draw, checking for any pursuers. Satisfied that she would not be seen, Celestia poked her head out of a draw in Princess Luna's dresser. Sniffing the air carefully, the little filly jumped out of her hiding spot, and crept towards the chambers door. Hesitantly, she nudged it to open a crack. She slowly glanced out, and saw no guards on the other side. With a large grin, the small princess sprinted out of the room, and across the corridor to the room on the far side. Hearing startled shouts and the clopping of hoove's, Celestia dolphin dived through the door just in time as she saw her sister skid around the corner, and barrel into her room.
Giggling, the princess of the day turned around to see what was inside the room. It was a small storage room made out of granite, and old dusty mahogany, or birchwood furniture; of which was littered around the place in an unorganised fashion. Turning around once more to listen to the commotion outside the door; Celestia pressed her ear againts the cold dusty wooden door, but heard nothing but mumbles. Opening the door a crack to be able to hear better, and peek out a tad, she saw her sibling tearing apart her room. Bed upturned, draws all over the floor, all rifled through and the door of Luna's dresser swinging lifelessly on its one remaining hinge. Listening carefully Celestia could hear her sister shouting.
"HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY LOSE AN ALICORN IN A ROOM THIS SIZE!"
All the guards flinched back at the volume of their princesses voice, and looked at the floor in shame.
"S-she is very small now, your grace" one very brave guard said with what little confidence he could muster "W-we counted to fifty five just like we were commanded to, and then she was just gone."
Luna facehoofed hard enough for even Celestia to hear from her hiding spot.
"No..." Luna spoke in a calmer tone now. "If you had looked everywhere, then my sister would have been found.." Luna continued to berrate the guards on there uselessness some more, but the little princess had other ideas.
While her Lunas, and the guards gaze were occupied, Celestia slipped out of the room, and silently galloped down the long hall deeper into the castle. 'This is going to be the best game of hide and seek ever!'
A/N I had alot of fun writing this chapter and I will be writing new chapters soon! have fun sire's!
E/N Coffee For The Horse here *serious face* I Realy derped out editing and pre-reading this